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Iditional importance is that the vibrational modes are dependent upon the reciprocal e vector k. As with calculations of the electronic structure of periodic lattices these cal-ions are usually performed by selecting a suitable set of points from within the Brillouin. For periodic solids it is necessary to take this periodicity into account the effect on the id-derivative matrix is that each element x] needs to be multiplied by the phase factor k-r y). A phonon dispersion curve indicates how the phonon frequencies vary over tlie luin zone, an example being shown in Figure 5.37. The phonon density of states is ariation in the number of frequencies as a function of frequency. A purely transverse ition is one where the displacement of the atoms is perpendicular to the direction of on of the wave in a pmely longitudinal vibration tlie atomic displacements are in the ition of the wave motion. Such motions can be observed in simple systems (e.g. those contain just one or two atoms per unit cell) but for general three-dimensional lattices of the vibrations are a mixture of transverse and longitudinal motions, the exceptions... 

The overall specific heat of a polymer is given by a combination of the various contributions to the specific heat of longitudinal and transversal phonons. At temperatures below 1K, the linear contribution due to the TLS must be added. 

Bulk silicon is a semiconductor with an indirect band structure, as schematically shown in Fig. 7.12 c. The top of the VB is located at the center of the Brillouin zone, while the CB has six minima at the equivalent (100) directions. The only allowed optical transition is a vertical transition of a photon with a subsequent electron-phonon scattering process which is needed to conserve the crystal momentum, as indicated by arrows in Fig. 7.12 c. The relevant phonon modes include transverse optical phonons (TO 56 meV), longitudinal optical phonons (LO 53.5 meV) and transverse acoustic phonons (TA 18.7 meV). At very low temperature a splitting (2.5 meV) of the main free exciton line in TO and LO replicas can be observed [Kol5]. 

Fig. 17. Bulk phonon dispersion of longitudinal modes in Cu and Ni crystals, along the (110) and (100) directions. After Ref. 37.)...

Fig. 18. Longitudinal bulk phonon density of states projected on bulk (top) and surface layers (bottom). After Ref. 36.)...

Fig, 26. Experimental dispersion curve of the Kr monolayer and measured line width broadening As of the Kr creation phonon peaks. The solid line in the dispersion plot is the clean Pt(lll) Rayleigh phonon dispersion curve and the dashed line the longitudinal phonon bulk band edge of the Pt(l 11) substrate, both in the r Mn azimuth which is coincident with the r Kk, azimuth. 

Barker, A. S., 1973. Infrared absorption of localized longitudinal-optical phonons, Phys. Rev., B7, 2507-2520. 

Figure 7.17 Crystal unit cell structure of Bi and the orientation of the (longitudinal) and (transverse) phonon motions. Reproduced from Ref. [42] with permission from Nature Publishing Group.

We did not differentiate between the various modes of vibration (longitudinal, transversal, acoustical, optical) for the sake of simplicity. The vibrational states in a crystal are called phonons. Figure 5-2 illustrates the collective, correlated transversal vibrational motion of a linear elastic chain of particles. 

A. Long-Wave Optical Phonons and Polaritons 1. Longitudinal Optical and Acoustical Phonons... 

We note that ionic crystals may have dielectric functions satisfying Eq. (4) for frequencies between their transverse and longitudinal optic phonon frequencies. SEW on such crystals are often called surface phonons or surface polaritons and the frequency range is the far IR. 

Ionic crystals also support SEW, but again no data exists where they have been used as substrates for attached molecule studies. That such studies may be feasible is illustrated in Fig. 21, which shows measured and calculated propagation distances for SrTi03 in the far infrared.— Again, these measurements were made with a molecular laser as a source. Unfortunately, for many crystals the frequency region over which SEW exist is very narrow (between the transverse and longitudinal optic phonon frequencies), and propagation distances are very short. However, ferroelectrics (and near-ferroelectrics like SrTiC ) may prove useful substrates for SEW spectroscopy. 

We focus on the polymer film. Since heat diffusion is propagated by segmental thermal excitations, it corresponds to the propagation of longitudinal phonons from the hot substrate-polymer interface to the colder polymer-air surface. Associated with the heat flux is a momentum flux (or rather, a flux in quasi-momentum [36])... 

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